Dude! Is it at least a king size couch? Did you give them blankets? Did you show them where the bathroom was? Your desire to be the perfect host to royalty is commendable, but there ARE practical limits!

I’m fairly certain that Nic hasn’t ever had one of the kings in his “thrall.” He’s just been their advisor…and they decided whether or not to follow his advice.

I also don’t know that Nic would gladly serve any human at this point. Remember his rant about humans when he destroyed the tablet at the centaur’s village? He talked about how ruthless Gaius Julius Caesar was…and it didn’t sound like a compliment.

Nic isn’t inherently evil. He’s just acted incredibly horribly in the name of “the good of Dreamland.” Granted, you could say that many so-called “evil” dictators believed that what they were doing was “good” for some reason or another, but Nic wasn’t acting on delusions or crazed ideas. He was acting on serious misinformation that never got cleared up (he was told that Rameses was going to invade Dreamland with an army) and his general experiences with humans that followed that unfortunate misunderstanding (interacting with ruthless, power-hungry humans who ruled Dreamland and then seeing Arthur try to find a way to bring other adult humans to Dreamland in spite of Nic’s adamant disapproval of the idea). He has reason to believe that humans are not good for Dreamland and that having one rule Dreamland would lead to the destruction of his home and the people who lived there. It’s just that his reasons were not fully based on fact and he acted on them in an underhanded way.

If Nic had actually been the advisor to Hitler…and Hitler had ruled Dreamland and wanted to enact some of his more disgusting ideas on the people living there…we probably wouldn’t think of Nic as evil for overthrowing the king. We just feel that way because it was Arthur, and Arthur has long been viewed as a “good guy” in the eyes of Western society.

You have to give Scott credit for developing a much more complex “bad guy” for his kid-friendly comic than just someone who is deranged or flat-out “evil.” 🙂

Oh Dan…you’re so silly. 🙂 I guess they don’t have a guest room (and now that I think of it, their cousin Joey did sleep on the floor between Alex & Dan’s beds back when he was visiting). I’d imagine that most people without guest rooms probably have either a sleeper-sofa or a good amount of sleeping bags and extra pillows. 🙂